Western cyclone., 1887-03-03
WITH A MORAL
When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this
Great National Calamity?

When Will Our Eyes be Opened to this
Great National Calamity?
The year 1886 played sad havoc with
manv prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full flush
of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
short time. We turn TO cur files and
are astonished to find that most of them
died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of Derv-
Gus prostration, of malignant blood hui
NOR, of Bright's disease, of heart dis
ease, of kidney disease, of rheumatism
or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our prom
inent men die of these disorders. Any
journalist who watches the telegraph
reports, will be astonished at the num-
Der of prominent victims of these disor-
ders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases that carried of so many
prominent men in 1885, are really one
disease, taking different names accord
ing to the location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it be-
comes the nine-days' talk of the sport
ing world, and yet thousands of ordina-
ry horses are dying every day, their ag-
gregate loss in enormous, and yet their
death creates no comment.
So 1t is with individuals. The cause
of death of prominent men creates com
ment, especially when it can be shown
that one unsupported disease carries off
| most of them, and yet "vast numbers
of ordinary men and women die before
their time every year from the same
cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart disease, pa
ralysls, nervous prostrat1on, pneumonia,
rheumatism, and many cases of con-
sumption, would never be known. This
uric acid, we are told, is the waste Of
the system, and 1t is the duty of the
kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that If the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood,
and these sudden and universal diseases
caused by uric acid will, in a large
measure, disappear.
But how shall this be done2 It is fol-
ly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause,
that way should be known to the pub
lie. We believe that Warner'3 safe
cure, of which so much has been writ
ten, and 80 much talked of by the
public generally, is now recognized by
impartial physicians and the public as
the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been di
rected to this great remedy by means of
advertising, some persons have not be-
lieved III the remedy. We cannot see
how Mr.. Warner could Immediately
benefit the public in any other way, and
his valuable specific should not be
condemned because some nostrums have
come before the public in the same way,
any more than all doctors should be con-
demned because so many of them are
incompetent.
, 1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side, of that great
AVu0"4' anu PuoA4G .OpluIuH tults Ddseu
upon al actual experience, has all the
weight and importance of absolute
truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid
in the blood invites pneumonia and
rheumatism, and there is not a man who
does not dread these monsters of dis
ease; but he need have 10 fear of them,
we are told, if he rid the blood of the
uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and NAV
sound like an advertisement, and be re-
jected as such by unthinking people,
but we believe they are the truth, and
as such should be spoken by every
truth-loving newspaper.